| Fitting.....................10 | |
| Since each sphere is richly populated by spirits fitting into that particular sphere, you are all constantly | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| of other directions, the plan is modified accordingly, fitting the circumstances exactly. All the alternatives are prepared | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| in a deliberate overemphasis on the allowed trends fitting the sex in question. For centuries and centuries | 62 MAN AND WOMAN |
| a slightly different angle, and this is only fitting for the last lecture of the season. Let | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| this lecture. These teachers used their own terminology, fitting their time, but the basic meaning remains the | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| mind and stop denying your feelings by agitatedly fitting the hurtful event into fixed images and theories | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| dynamics from what you used to do: artificially fitting feelings into a superstructure of explanations and reasoning | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| new forms, clad perhaps in a new terminology, fitting to the present society. There is a new | 181 THE MEANING OF THE HUMAN STRUGGLE |
| coinciding with pleasant and unpleasant. Finding the most fitting environment, parents, siblings, friends, contacts in later life | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| more on your body, to make it a fitting receptacle for truth, love, wisdom and service. At | 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS |
| Fixated.....................4 | |
| words. As long as the personality is unconsciously fixated on early experience, the soul cannot truly grow | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| obvious that as long as a person is fixated on negative erotic or sexual pleasure, it is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| fear-tension currents. To the degree that you are fixated on this either/or duality, you are in error | 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION |
| flowing, moving, ongoing process, you can never become fixated on finalities, which create error, confusion, duality. You | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Fixation....................8 | |
| and the faulty assimilation of experience. This negative fixation of the pleasure drive may take two extreme | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| your psyche become ready to truly reach out. Fixation implies lack of movement, and therefore lack of | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| movement of the life force could dissolve the fixation. Experience then could take place on the level | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| pain and fear. Then you can find the fixation directly and without detour. It is obvious that | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| you have reached advanced earthly age, dissolved your fixation, or faced your original childhood conditions, it is | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| every difficult situation in life represents a sexual fixation in the innermost psyche that you fear and | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| and where the pleasure/unpleasure dichotomy produces an unconscious fixation of the pleasure experience on a negative situation | 148 POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY: ONE ENERGY CURRENT |
| come to believe them. It furthers a lower-self fixation to indulge in the negative pleasure of negative | 248 THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE FORCES OF EVIL -- PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL |
| Fixations...................6 | |
| are very deeply rooted, your idiosyncrasies and your fixations, all this is not part of your body | 18 FREE WILL |
| It is about self-responsibility, and about certain philosophic fixations we seem to have which include both a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| entanglements among your guilt, repression, fear, early childhood fixations of the pleasure principle, its failure to develop | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| cannot truly grow and expand its experience. The fixations cannot be given up unless awareness enters into | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| is of utmost necessity to dissolve all these fixations and thus set the life force free. Frustration | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| in your life. When you fail to resolve fixations, you block the life force, and this blockage | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| Fixed.......................89 | |
| each individual being. In the same way, the fixed and yet eternally moving spiritual laws, which pertain | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| only ground I can stand on, my only fixed point; I do not know any other. Of | 8 MEDIUMSHIP -- HOW TO CONTACT GOD'S SPIRIT WORLD |
| law? ANSWER: Not necessarily. We do not have fixed rules like that. There are cases when divorce | 44 THE FORCES OF LOVE, EROS, AND SEX |
| indicates greater or lesser development. There is no fixed rule on that. Each case is a separate | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the truth with absolute self-honesty. There are no fixed rules to determine whether actions are right or | 64 OUTER WILL AND INNER WILL -- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT SELFISHNESS |
| current, you will not need to dream up fixed situations. You will not be rigid in your | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| the unknown makes humans distort true concepts into fixed opposites, thereby diminishing their truth. It was very | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| flexible; by its very nature it cannot be fixed. Nothing that is true can be rigid, static | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that is true can be rigid, static, or fixed. It is always flexible. This very flexibility appears | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| as a threat to people. They want the fixed pseudo-safety of a stone wall on which they | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the human soul. Humans think that what is fixed is safe, and what is flexible is unsafe | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| too, cling to the supposed safety of the fixed rule. You seem to feel as though you | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| the confusion about self-responsibility. When leaning on the fixed rule, you shift the responsibility to the rule | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| that there is no such thing as a fixed rule, you are frightened, because you have to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| be a danger to you. The inflexible or fixed rule or law is for the child who | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| people need the strong authority who upholds the fixed rule because then they do not have to | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| greater insecurity than being egocentric. Egocentricity calls for fixed, prescribed behavior patterns and rules, however subtly and | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| you to let go of the super-structure of fixed rules, it is only because you cannot accept | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| Discover where and how you use preconceived and fixed rules to guide you, rather than your own | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| to have the courage not to conform to fixed rules, or not to rebel against what is | 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT |
| Or do they take on an awesome, strange, fixed, and therefore almost inhuman form in your emotional | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| still becomes inhuman from your exaggerated overglorification. Your fixed and static view, due to the fragmentation of | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| flexible and contradictory, for which there are no fixed rules, is something the child in you would | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| may seem much easier to cling to your fixed impressions, where each person fits into a niche | 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE |
| trouble spots mean that the pleasure drive was fixed in connection with negative, unpleasurable experience by guilt | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| self- centered, and therefore excluding. Emotions that remain fixed in the childish state are less sinful than | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| other relationships, particularly with your mate. The more fixed your emotions are, the more they indicate that | 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE |
| and resolved. Therefore, the time element cannot be fixed nor rules made that each period must take | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| The time element cannot be compared to the fixed time that a physical organism takes to grow | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| that phases of growth cannot be measured in fixed states as with the physical organism. Besides, as | 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY |
| in another, for it is actually not a fixed spot. In your illusory vision of time, space | 146 POSITIVE CONCEPT OF LIFE-FEARLESSNESS TO LOVE-BALANCE BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY |
| is convinced that life itself is a certain fixed, unchangeable thing, life must turn out to be | 147 THE NATURE OF LIFE AND HUMAN NATURE |
| that has its predetermined existence, whose conditions are fixed. Even objects are in flux, are condensed energy | 162 THREE LEVELS OF REALITY FOR INNER GUIDANCE |
| feelings by agitatedly fitting the hurtful event into fixed images and theories. Let it be! Feel what | 165 EVOLUTIONARY PHASES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALMS OF FEELINGS, REASON, AND WILL |
| error of perceiving and experiencing life in a fixed way, as though what is now must always | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| of consciousness. This state of consciousness is now fixed in the conviction that life and your personality | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| remain that way. Your state of consciousness remains fixed in this dark imprisonment as long as you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| believe this is you; you are in a fixed state, you are a fixed unit, and any | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| are in a fixed state, you are a fixed unit, and any change is impossible because you | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| you -- intrinsically alien, and your real, final, fixed self is what you dislike. As long as | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| be understood in its essence. No matter how fixed your life may appear, it is only one | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| Underneath all these personality traits you believe are fixed, final things, the fluid life exists like a | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| overcome anything when you believe you are a fixed, unchangeable blob. You know that according to your | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| geared to believe that your life is a fixed mold you were put into and you must | 175 CONSCIOUSNESS: FASCINATION WITH CREATION |
| you wish to make fluid what is now fixed. You may then uncover that non-fulfillment, with all | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| the best, most wise aspect of the self. Fixed outer values are never a reliable answer to | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| trapped in error and negativity is stagnant and fixed. The difficulty is making that fixedness fluid again | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| and consciousness is energy. Consciousness that solidifies into fixed substance must be made fluid again, must wake | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| wake up out of its own stagnation. Stagnant, fixed energy/consciousness needs its own loosening up. Fluid consciousness | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Fluid consciousness and energy can affect the stagnant, fixed parts only with the greatest difficulty, because true | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| Free-flowing energy/consciousness is therefore always repulsed by the fixed state. This is what I meant by the | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| mode, substance, energy and consciousness trapped into a fixed nucleus will remain stationary. These words are not | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| consciousness and fluid energy did not prevail upon fixed consciousness and soul substance, it would remain fixed | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| fixed consciousness and soul substance, it would remain fixed forever and ever. The free-flowing consciousness/energy eventually prevails | 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL |
| is not so. Consciousness does not require a fixed form. Every particle of matter contains consciousness, but | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| if the human entity were put into a fixed outer form of life. It is generally overlooked | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| aliveness, of the unitive state. The vacuum is fixed; the spark of the all is constantly moving | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| at things. This is an essential task. Your fixed ideas prevent the spirit from moving your mind | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| now believe to be emotions are often merely fixed opinions. And where your feelings should unfold, you | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| have built in your mind with your tightly fixed conclusion to convince yourself and eliminate disturbing self-doubts | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| not be annihilated if you abandon your view fixed to the present interpretation. This fixed view is | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| your view fixed to the present interpretation. This fixed view is to a considerable extent responsible for | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| other words, psychological deviations are associated with a fixed, inflexible mind that must be dealt with in | 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES |
| easy path. But the difficulty is not a fixed reality, a given fact, an immutable condition. The | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| Life itself appears to you a static, objective fixed thing into which you are put. It seems | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| merely a subjective expression of yourself, not a fixed, objective, immovable reality. Once you learn to be | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| misconceptions and generalizations which form very limited and fixed closed systems. Conscious and/or unconscious identification which forms | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| rather than feeling a helpless object in a fixed world. Peace and knowledge of the rightness of | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| disconnected from you. Then the world seems a fixed place in which your personal experiences come to | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| before seemed to you absolutely and incontrovertibly a fixed outer event you were put into haphazardly, was | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| only one of many possibilities, rather than a fixed, exclusive reality applicable to all inner states. When | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| materialistic consciousness in which life appears a given fixed thing into which you are put, you will | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| reality for as long as your mind is fixed on them, just as this sphere seems the | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |
| the end creation, which appears to be a fixed thing. But when you become aware of your | 214 PSYCHIC NUCLEAR POINTS |
| of energy rigidifies and makes things and people fixed. The flow becomes invisible, as does the entity | 216 CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INCARNATORY PROCESS AND THE LIFE TASK |
| contain in your nucleus, which is not a fixed perfectionism, but the ever moving, changing perfection of | 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN |
| will be good. Such an approach has no fixed opinion; it empties itself. That is one of | 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS |
| insecure, for you believe that security lies in fixed rules. Nothing could be further from the truth | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| old stable laws according to which what is fixed and unchangeable is secure. The laws that pertain | 224 CREATIVE EMPTINESS |
| of life. I am not speaking here of fixed temperatures, for there is no norm applicable to | 228 BALANCE |
| This is a mistake. So your mind becomes fixed and closed to the truth. When the contracting | 235 THE ANATOMY OF CONTRACTION |
| pattern which affects others adversely. The misconception is fixed and frozen in the soul substance because it | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| feared to lose when you give up your fixed ideas. The new light nourishes and strengthens you | 247 THE MASS IMAGES OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY |
| change over time. They will never deteriorate into fixed routines. The sexual encounter is a true fusion | 251 THE EVOLUTION AND SPIRITUAL MEANING OF MARRIAGE -- NEW AGE MARRIAGE |
| over. For the soul is not static or fixed. It constantly moves and changes, forever producing new | 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY |
| be put into an entirely objective world, all fixed and ready-made. All conditions and natural laws seem | 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE |
| Everything and everyone changes, and there is no fixed guarantee that what is right today will be | 254 SURRENDER |
| space. Just as there is really no objective, fixed time, so there is no objective, fixed space | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |
| objective, fixed time, so there is no objective, fixed space. Your real being can live, breathe and | 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS |